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The Internet, digital and dematerialized though it may seem, is also a very real place in as much as it dictates how millions of people live their lives–not to mention its various physical and architectural manifestations in cables, processing centers, web infrastructure and so on. At any rate, like many real things that we don’t [...]

Today is National Cookie Day, which we imagine means every American citizen must take it upon him or herself to eat as many cookies as possible, which we’ve already been doing for over eleven hours now, so we win the National Cookie Day prize! What, there’s no prize? Oh well, there’s cookies, and those are [...]

Disney has made billions off anthropomorphizing animals, Transformers has done the same with vehicles, now it’s the Internet’s time. That is how we get this illustration imagining that If 7 Popular Websites Were People they would look something like the following assortment of vaguely anime-looking characters. Click image for larger version.

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We appreciate how hard it is to pick a tattoo design. After all, this is something you’ll be wearing, whether you like it or not, for the rest of your life. As such, it should probably be something that remains relevant as you grow, or at least reminds you of some important time or period [...]

One of the most iconic images of modern history is about to celebrate its 20th anniversary: on June 5th, 1989 an unknown man faced down a row of tanks on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where months of protest had finally ceased when the military removed protesters from the public plaza by force. Nobody ever discovered who [...]

As you may have heard, creepy-scary private military firm Blackwater recently changed its name to Xe (pronounced zee or zé, or maybe even ché). Silly as the change looks on paper and pixels, we all get the motivation behind this move: if you have a bad image, you “rebrand.” (In the BL – Before Listicles [...]

Remember those times, about 5 years ago, when everyone thought that books would slowly disappear as people took to reading texts for free online and on nifty digital reading devices? Well, since then a surprisingly top-shelf library of free online books has acrued thanks to Project Gutenberg (Google Books, meanwhile, has been a big disappointment).
Campus [...]

Blink-182 announces reunion, pop punk crosses fingers for a revival.
My Little Pony dressed up for Comic-Con.
Twitter strives for genuine deal with His Holiness after his bogus feed attracted 16,000 followers over the weekend.
Usain Bolt gives competitor a face-full of celebration.
It’s so hard to live on $500k in New York City.
The Pepsi Rorschach test logo.
Career woman’s [...]

Bill Gates releases mosquitoes on TED audience to prove a point/take some coverage away from Jobs’s ill heath.
The AP sues Shepard Fairey over Obama image.
Hey, New York figured out where that weird maple syrup smell was coming from.
Titanoboa!
Paul Rudd and fellow comedic types explore “literally, hundreds of thousand of sections, all in one newspaper!”
Cookie Monster’s 99 [...]

Technology is a great thing, isn’t it? Especially when it lets us discover great things that we didn’t know existed and probably never have known about without technology. Such is the case with Google Street View, which (in case you’re one of the 10 people who doesn’t already know) lets users see a view of [...]